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Week starting Saturday, October 1, 2011

Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei brings to Houston more than 160 works of art that highlight the artistic and cultural contributions of imperial rulers in China.

Tour for MFAH Members Lifestyles Around the World The exhibition Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris allows you to experience—through art and material culture—a typical day in the life of elite Parisians. After[…]

Explore Robert Rauschenberg’s use of media imagery to foster an American identity. Through Selected Prints from the MFAH Collection—from pictures of President John F. Kennedy, to baseball games, to satellites—see how the artist captured an idealistic[…]

Meet your tour guide in the Beck Building lobby. Explore the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden on this 45-minute gallery talk. Consider the garden as a work of art in itself—a sculpture for sculpture designed[…]

Experience the elegance of a typical day for elite 18th-century Parisians, through paintings, furniture, sculpture, timepieces, textiles, metalwork, musical instruments, maps, and more. This 45-minute gallery talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Life & Luxury:[…]

Egyptian religion believed in resurrection after death. Join this 20-minute gallery talk and see how works of art from the MFAH collection reveal the process of preparing a body for this resurrection. Meet in the lobby[…]

Celebrate the harvest season during this fall Family Day at Rienzi. Art activities include painting pumpkins; creating your own autumn wreath; and making seed and leaf collages. Bluegrass band Southern Light performs, and Rienzi docents lead[…]

Art Improv offers family fun on select first Sundays throughout the year. Choose a work of art anywhere in the museum and make friends with it—spend time sketching it, writing about it, and talking about[…]